American bards : Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet / by Edward Whitley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitley, Edward Keyes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Poets, American--19th century.

Poets, American.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Appreciation--United States.

Whitman, Walt.

Whitfield, James Monroe, 1822-1871.

Whitfield, James Monroe.

Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey), 1804-1887.

Snow, Eliza R.

Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867.

Ridge, John Rollin.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of

Contents:

James M. Whitfield: the poet of slaves

Eliza R. Snow: poet of a new American religion

John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird): the first white aboriginal

Walt Whitman: an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908832-3-0

979-88-9313-328-8

1-4696-0635-6

0-8078-9942-9

OCLC:

676698517